Digital Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Digital Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Digital Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 424 564
Rank change year-on-year +84 +140 -89
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 10 44 57
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.066% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.20% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 31
10th Percentile £825 £450 £375
25th Percentile £919 £488 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,125 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year +119.51% -21.15% +44.44%
75th Percentile £1,369 £619 £688
90th Percentile £1,485 £675 £813
UK median daily rate £625 £556 £650
% change year-on-year +12.36% -14.42% +44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £40.55 -
% change year-on-year +13.90% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Digital Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Digital Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Digital Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Digital Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Digital Engineering.

Digital Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Digital Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Digital Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Automotive
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) C++ Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior C++ Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Commercial Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Commercial Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Head of IT
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) JWT
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) MPEG
1 1 (10.00%) Online Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Over-the-Top Content
1 1 (10.00%) STB
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) BDD
5 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (10.00%) Culture Change
5 1 (10.00%) Data Mapping
5 1 (10.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C++
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) QNX
2 1 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat